The communications technology of the public Internet, local area networks (LANs) and most wide area networks (WANs). The Internet Protocol (IP) is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, and the terms "IP ...

An open-source protocol from Google that is used to encode and parse text-based XML data in a binary format. Using an interface description language (IDL) to define any XML structure, the XML is ...

The User Datagram Protocol is a protocol used to transmit data over the internet. It is connectionless and does not guarantee delivery of your data, but uses less overhead. This term was viewed 3,714 ...

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, or SMTP, is a protocol that is most often used by Internet Service Providers to allow you to send out email from your local computer. This term was viewed 3,403 times.

Are you interested in defining a MAC (media-access-control) protocol for use in add/drop packet rings for local-, wide-, and metropolitan-area networks? You may want to contact the nonprofit Resilient ...

Altera Corp. is discovering that, even as the world centers on Ethernet and TCP/IP as the dominant protocols for high-speed communications, FPGA vendors nevertheless are being tasked with more and ...